MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1927, Page 10

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

Modern woman is fast evolving feet similar to a horse’s hoofs, according to Dr. Frank Furch, president of the Illinois Association of Chiropodists, because she insists on wearing shoes having heels too high and selected to fit the eye rather than the foot. Hei’ toes are shortening owing to their cramped position in short, tight shoes; her foot is extending as the arch is forced up, and the calf muscles are shortening, with the ultimate result that they will resemble equine extremities, he says.

It is possible that before long men will no longer need to shave every morning, and women will have no more worries with bobbed hair. As a result of experiments carried out by an English naturalist, the growth of the hail’ can be regulated. During experiments a strain of mice were produced, the heads of which became bald in sixteen days. A few days later they lost the fur on their backs, and a little later all their hair had gone. Another scientist has been making discoveries about the life of a hair. He kept a record of one of his hairs for seven years, and found that it grew on only 264 days in a yefir. In summer he found that hairs get a quarter of an inch longer than in winter.

Even in these days few women would care to take a mouse by its tail and hold it close to their eyes the better to examine the sheen of its fur. but this is what several women did at the Leeds and District Fanciers’ Show, where women outnumbered men as exhibitors of mice. “They make quite interesting pets, and, of course, you get used to them.” one woman exhibitor said, as she allowed a bright-eyed mouse to run about in the palni of her hand. Mr G. Fallbrook, the judge of the mouse section, stated that many of the mice exhibited there that day had changed hands for 30s and £2, and some fetched as much as £7.

Success attended a claim made at Shoreditch County Court involving the right of a posthumous baby to compensation for the death of its father. Mrs B. Sinclair claimed under the Workmen’s .Compensation Act in respect of the death of her husband, who was employed by Mr Albert Ewer, cartage contractor, Shoreditch Mrs Sinclair’s husband died in May as the result of an accident and the baby was born in December. Mrs Sinclair was awarded £3OO compensation, but also claimed in respect of her child. Mr A. E. Robinson, for Mrs Sinclair,, now intimated that the employer did not dispute the right of the child to compensation and had offered £243 12s. Judge Cluer, in giving judgment for this amount, declared that he was satisfied that the award was adequate.

Queen Mary, accompanied by a lady-in-waiting, thoroughly enjoyed a new experience recently. Her Majesty lunched at one of the best known London restaurants, where a table had been set apart for her. Other guests came and went, and the Queen was much amused. When Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain is in London she lunches and dines constantly at the Ritz and Claridge’s, and entertains her friends there as well as being entertained by them. Princess Arthur of Connaught is another Royal lady who revels in dining out, and with her Husband and friends is often to be met in hotel dining- rooms as well as those of the most frequented restaurants.

In presenting the silver medal of the Royal Society of Arte to Lady Chatterjee, the wife of the High Commissioner for India, recently, Sir Thomas Holland, its president, recalled tlie tribute lie paid her earlier in the year when, after she had read her paper on the employment of women and children in Indian industries; he declared that in 1919 he had gone back to that country to create a position in which could be employed “the one person he had found who obviously had the necessary qualifications.” This was Lady Chatterjee, who, when the Indian Government was considering how factory legislation should be improved with regard to woman and child labour in India, was appointed adviser on all questions affecting them Largely through her representation, the child age of employment was raised. Subsequently she was adviser to the delegation sent by the Indian Government to the International Labour Conference in Geneva.

The British Industries Fair afforded an interesting indication of the extent to which women are establishing themselves in various branches of commerce. In such selections as leather bags about 25 per cent, of the buyers doing business were women. Some of them came from the United State, Canada and Australia, many from the West End shops, and a great number from big provincial towns. There were three stalls belonging to women makers of basket-ware; six owned by women in the handbag industry, and five by women manufacturing toys. Stalls were also held by women manufacturers of beauty preparations. manicure sets, flowers, lamp-shades, mirrors, glassware, jewellery, silver-ware, leather goods, lace, embroidery, and linen. Each of these stalls was visited by a considerable number of women buyers, some of whom earn well over £lOOO a year. Practically all have worked their way up from the foot of the ladder. One lady manufacturer started making fancy bags at the end of the war. Her husband joined her in the business, and now she employs 150 people. Her firm is considered one of the biggest in the exclusive trade. Another lady, who went into business against the wishes of Iler family, and has her own factory, at which artistice leather goods are produced for many countries abroad, was congratulated by a buyer from a leading Paris firm on having one of the most artistic stands at the fair.